And now, here's Kary!
Always Time for Love
by Kary Rader
Katie, thank you for having me on your blog today!
In my recent release, A Taylor-Made Life, the heroine
takes a journey of love, loss, and discovery. In the end,
she learns a valuable lesson, one we could all benefit from—No one is promised
tomorrow. Live today.
Five
years ago while I was pregnant with my youngest child, my husband was diagnosed
with Stage IV melanoma cancer. Thank God, he’s now cancer free, but last year
when a friend's daughter was diagnosed with cancer, all those emotions I had came
flooding back. A Taylor-Made Life
is the result of those emotions.
I wanted
to write a story that showed how cancer took not only life but time—time with
family, time having fun or even working. From the moment cancer comes into your
life, all you do, all you focus on, is fighting it—scheduling doctor
appointments and treatments, worrying about living, about finances, about those
you love. Cancer takes something from everyone in the family, not just the one
diagnosed. I wanted the reader to feel the loss from both sides of the bed,
because, in my opinion, watching someone you love suffer is much harder than
suffering yourself. But more than the suffering, I also wanted to show that
there is hope and joy and peace even in a hopeless situation, that we can still
find love no matter how far we are from it or how little time we have left.
There’s always room for love.
A Taylor-Made Life is a special story looking for a
home in the hearts of readers. I pray you give the characters an opportunity to
touch you.
They lived the life they were
given; they loved the life they made.
Cheerleader
Taylor Smith doesn’t want to die a virgin. Unfortunately, if the terminally-ill
leukemia patient doesn't find a lover or a stem-cell match within months, her
fear will become reality. When her cancer mentor is revealed to be a hottie
entrepreneur from California, it seems fate might finally be on her side.
Tech-geek
Gavin Taylor has everything he ever wanted, except someone to grieve for him
when he's gone. With his melanoma cancer beyond the help of his riches, he
agrees to participate in a cancer patient mentoring program where he's matched
with a dying teen from Texas. Despite his immediate attraction, the Silicon
Valley whiz intends only to provide friendship and happy memories to the
beautiful, young woman who is determined to win his love.
When
it's discovered that his frozen sperm and her harvested eggs could lead to a
cure, Taylor's mother offers to be a surrogate. And Gavin must decide if he can
risk the heart he has never given and a child he'll never know to a girl he
just met.
Available at
About the Author...
Kary Rader is a part-time Twitter sage, stay-at-home mother of
three, and slave to the characters and worlds inside her head. Always creative,
she's drawn to stories with fantastical worlds and creatures. With a little bit
of magic and divine guidance, there isn't anything that can't be accomplished
with words. It's the power of words that creates and destroys. Vanquishing evil
and injustice while finding eternal love in the process is all in a day's work.
With the help of her critique partners and master cartographer imaginary places
come to life.
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AND NOW FOR THE GIVEAWAY PART...
Giveaway: $25 Gift Card to Amazon, a Charm Bracelet, a Crochet Hat, and SWAG for A Taylor-Made Life, and Queen of Jastain.
Giveaway Rules:
Giveaway begins August 1st and will end August 30th 11:59 EST. The winner will be announced by email. Open to U.S. residents only. We are not responsible for items lost in the mail & have the right to disqualify anyone, at any time. Personal
information given by the applicant in the giveaway will never be
shared. All information is deleted once the giveaway ends.
Thanks for having me on today, Katie!And I can't wait to hear what you think of Taylor and Gavin.
ReplyDeleteI just recently lost my mother to cancer. I don't thing I can read this right now, too painful, but in a few months/years, I would love to read this book.
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